CALH 2011:
My first tent.
The Many Faces of Woody Allen
Knowing that I both love eyewear and Woody Allen, my friend Amanda sent me the link to this poster.
Campus A Low Hum 2011
I’d never been camping before last weekend. Unless you count a night in a tent in a friend’s backyard when I was ten or sleeping in a cardboard box in a field at a Christian camp when I was twelve. I don’t. Anyway, I’d always avoided going to Camp(us) A Low Hum, because the whole sleeping in a tent thing terrified me. I feel really stupid about that now.
Here are my highlights:
- Dancing to (and _with_ Jim at one point!) Captain Ahab in a gigantic emptied indoor pool. If you get the chance to see these guys, don’t frakin’ hesitate. GO. Wellington: This means TOMORROW NIGHT at Garden.
- A truck set up with karaoke in the back. I did Robyn’s ‘Konichiwa Bitches’ and danced to lots of other people doing songs such as Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds of Love’.
- Petra dressed like a giraffe.
- Lazing in a hammock with T while Tantrums played in the distance and competed for my ear-time with lots of cicadas.
- Discovering new bands to enjoy; Lowtide, Tantrums, Rat vs Possum, The Ocean Floor, Butcher Blades, CTRIX, Wet Wings, etc…
- Sitting under a tree in the shade, while Megalex does his hilarious and lovely freestyle session
- Getting to have actual conversations with people I see at gigs all the time, but don’t really know apart from that.
- Glass Vaults in the pool. Dark, empty pool. Purple and blue lights, LASERS!, hundreds of glowsticks being thrown into the audience (a brief and beautiful sight!). Dancing right up the back above it all.
- Plenty of sitting under trees, really.
- Being ridiculously proud of myself for handling camping with minimal fuss. Gold star for me! I am a dork.
- Good food (noodle salad!) and soy flat whites in the middle of nowhere, thanks Catering Studio.
- Jabies falafel kebabs in Bulls. Best kebabs I’ve had in YEARS.
- Seeing how much T was enjoying himself on his birthday weekend. Aww. <3
- Smiles and kind words with strangers
Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
Any excuse to post about Sleigh Bells. Alexis is wearing sunglasses in the video, so that’s relevant enough for me. 
I am PR-obsessed, but I lack the dedication of Gibsonian:
When Mr. Gibson was in Austin in September to sign Zero History, I brought him my Buzz Ricksons M-65 field jacket and a laundry marker. This was the result. Today was the first morning of the fall where it was cold enough for me to finally start wearing it again.
The inside of the field jacket has a big black patch with seemingly cryptic text (the meaning of which will be clear to any sufficiently retentive reader of Pattern Recognition). Mr Gibson told me that he’d devised the text for the people at Buzz, and it was developed with a conscious attempt to channel the sort of oddball English you find on a lot of Japanese clothing:
Soul-Delay
Cayce Pollard Unit
F.F.F.
“Secure the Perimeter”
The Girl From Tomorrow and her transducer lessons. Loved this show when I was about 11.
(Source: yacht)
Happy new year!
- Barton Perreira have a new video out for their 2011 collection. It uses Lykke Li’s ‘Get Some’ [video] (which has been stuck in my head for a couple of weeks after hearing…
Fistful of Gems
…are from Christchurch, but now live in Auckland and used to be in Tiger Tones.
Lounge dance party, because it is still a public holiday in Wellington and no bars that I like to dance at are is open.
(via Thomas, via 47 Diamantes!)
